What Are Mulberries? Three Steps to Teach You How to Make Mulberry Wine!
Mulberry, also known as mulberry fruit, is the ripe fruit of the mulberry tree. Because it is juicy and sweet, highly nutritious and has a beauty-enhancing effect, it is very popular among women. It is sold in markets and the price is a little high, so what are mulberries? How do you make them into mulberry wine?
1. What are mulberries?
1. Mulberry is the ripe fruit of the mulberry tree, a deciduous tree in the order Rosales, family Moraceae, genus Morus. Its shape is oval or oblong, and it is made up of countless small oval drupelets. When it first grows, it is green; as it gradually ripens, it turns from green to red, and then to black or blackish purple. It generally blooms from March to May and bears fruit from May to June, and it tastes sweet and sour.
2. Mulberry, also known as mulberry fruit, mulberry berry, is a fruit that looks like a raspberry. It is divided into many varieties such as long-fruited mulberry, black mulberry, Sichuan mulberry, white mulberry, Lu mulberry, and chicken mulberry. At present, it is planted in hills, slopes, fields and farmland in places such as Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan in China.
3. Mulberry is very high in nutritional value and contains rich protein, vitamins, cellulose, carotene, malic acid, fatty acids, zinc, potassium and many other elements. It has the effects of beautifying the face, delaying aging, and nourishing yin and blood. Regular consumption can treat palpitations, constipation, dizziness and other conditions, and it is very suitable for elderly people and women to eat. At present, it can be used to soak into wine, or made into dried mulberries, mulberry paste, mulberry porridge and so on.
2. How do you make it into mulberry wine?
Mulberries are not easy to store and easily attract flies, so if you buy too many to finish eating, you can make them into mulberry wine. The specific method is as follows:
Ingredients used: mulberries, white sugar (rock sugar), glass container
Step 1: Pick over and wash clean the mulberries you bought or picked, then put on gloves and crush the mulberries by hand, or use a blender to crush them.
Step 2: Put the crushed mulberries into a glass container, then add an appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar and stir evenly. Finally, cover it with several layers of gauze and let it ferment into alcohol. Generally, about 50-100 g of rock sugar for one jin of mulberries is about right; the specific amount is decided according to your own taste. When covering with gauze, do not cover it too tightly, so as to avoid a large amount of carbon dioxide produced during fermentation causing an explosion, which would splash the mulberries everywhere. For safety, it is best to put it in a place at home where people do not often go, so as to avoid injuring people if it explodes. However, if operated correctly, this situation will not happen.
Step 3: Cover the container with its lid, put the container in a 22 degree environment for one month, and the mulberry wine is ready. Finally, use three or four layers of gauze to separate the residue from the wine liquid, and put it into another bottle. If it is left for another half a year, the taste will be even better.
Overall, mulberries are the ripe fruit of the mulberry tree. They can not only be eaten directly, but can also be made into dried mulberries, mulberry wine, mulberry paste and so on, and regular consumption can beautify the face, delay aging and more. Generally, surplus mulberries can be mashed, then mixed with an appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar and left to ferment into mulberry wine, which is not only tasty but also highly nutritious.